Spectrum News: SUU receives grant for new mapping
system
CEDAR CITY -- The Utah Center for Rural Life of Southern Utah
University and the Utah Rural Development Council received a
grant award of $15,000 from the USDA/Forest Service and $10,000
from the State Community Impact Board. The grants will be use to
purchase a wide context scanning computer system for SUU's
GIS/GPS Laboratory. The GIS/GPS lab director, Dave Maxwell, has
the system up and running.
Small rural communities with populations of 10,000 or less
are able to take their historical documentation maps (by
appointment) and have them scanned into a mapping system for
their use in future planning of their communities. This is a
service that small communities would otherwise not be able to
afford, and will be performed by student interns. For more
information, call Dave Maxwell at (435) 865-8313 or send an
e-mail to maxwell@suu.edu
